How to shorten Google FolderID’s and host websites from GoogleDocs

With many more educational institutions embracing the use of Google Apps and a Google EDU domain in the classroom a really useful tool is http://gdriv.es/ - allowing you to shorten into a more manageable format your links to GoogleDoc folders and files. In addition you can host your websites for free with Google Drive. Just create a new folder, make it public, put your HTML, CSS, JS and image files there, then look at the address bar and copy the folder ID: Take a look for yourself at http://gdriv.es/ Not that this is a third party service and not directly hosted by Google.